Saudi Prince Launches Sharpest Criticism of Trump's Jerusalem Decision Yet

Source: Haaretz

Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal has criticised U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, in one of the sharpest reactions emanating from the U.S.-allied kingdom.

In a letter to Trump published in a Saudi newspaper on Monday, Prince Turki, a former ambassador to Washington who now holds no government office but remains influential, called the move a domestic political ploy which would stoke violence.

"Bloodshed and mayhem will definitely follow your opportunistic attempt to make electoral gain," Prince Turki wrote in a letter published in the Saudi newspaper al-Jazeera.

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"Your action has emboldened the most extreme elements in the Israeli society ... because they take your action as a license to evict the Palestinians from their lands and subject them to an apartheid state," Prince Turki wrote.

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Prince Turki also wrote that Trump's action "has equally emboldened Iran and its terrorist minions to claim that they are the legitimate defenders of Palestinian rights."